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by Geoff Kelly, photos by Cheryl Gorski
On October 23, Emile Latimer, who nearly everyone called Papa, died of complications resulting from a stroke. He was 79.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Alan Bedenko & Geoff Kelly
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by Alan Bedenko
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Michael I. Niman
Here’s some good news. A recent piece in The Nation begins with an untypically upbeat quote from a former Greenpeace bigwig now working in the solar industry, who reports that, unbeknownst to most folks, we’re winning the fight against climate change, being well on our way toward phasing out fossil and nuclear fuels much earlier than the most optimistic futurists predicted.
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by Bruce Fisher
We reckon time differently nowadays. The 2013 election was going to have an enduring identity as the year New Yorkers in New York City got to choose Michael Bloomberg’s successor, the year Gotham got its first Democrat since the hapless David Dinkins.
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by Paul Wolf Esq., ReinventingGov.org
A recent Buffalo News article highlighted City Hall bureaucracy causing low income homeowners to wait years to have a home repair loan application processed. It is amazing how this story repeats itself over and over. Let’s review the sad history of home repair programs in Buffalo.
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by J. Tim Raymond
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by Jack Foran
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by Patricia Pendleton
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by Anthony Chase
Local playwright Mark Humphrey, author of the one-man tour de force, Mr. Benny, in which Tim Newell portrayed Jack Benny, has a new play about a historic character opening this week.
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by Buck Quigley
Formed in 1967, in opposition to the Vietnam War, the Western New York Peace Center has grown into one of the most influential activist groups in the area—with only a small staff but over a thousand members. The organization has several task forces and committees that focus on prison conditions, militarism, Latin American and Middle East issues, the global economy, economic empowerment, and more recently, high-volume horizontal fracking.
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by Jan Jezioro
At their next concert on Wednesday, November 6 at 7:30pm in the Buffalo Seminary, the Buffalo Chamber Players will offer a program for the first time consisting entirely of works by contemporary composers, all of whom live, more or less, in our region.
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by George Sax
Edwin Cameron is a justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court. He’s a tall, slim, 50ish man, apparently very fit (he competes in bicycle races), but 17 years ago he felt himself deathly ill, literally. As he recounts in Dylan Mohan Gray’s Fire in the Blood, he had five symptoms of terminal AIDS.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of featured events, including our editor's pick for the week: Merle Haggard, who performs at Kleinhans Music Hall on Friday, November 1st.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
About a year ago, a very small yet very noisy band of critics were painting a vision of Harbor Center that for the most part branded the new facility as a “glorified big box parking ramp.” The size, the fenestration, the bridge over Perry Street…all signs of the coming apocalypse.
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by Richard Lipsitz Jr.
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by John Karhiio Kane
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by Chuck Shepherd
On Nov. 1, NRK was to televise live, for five hours, an attempt to break the world record for producing a sweater, from shearing the sheep to spinning the wool and knitting the garment (current record: 4:51, by Australians).
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by Rob Brezsny
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What if you had the power to enchant and even bewitch people with your charisma? Would you wield your allure without mercy? Would you feel wicked delight in their attraction to you, even if you didn’t plan to give them what they want?
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Rich Tomasello’s new show, Innocence Lost: New Work by Rich Tomasello, opened October 29 at Daemen College. Elizabeth Leader’s Out of the Rustbelt opens November 1 at Larkin at Exchange Building’s 1st Floor Gallery. And a group show at Studio Hart opening on November 1 with a reception (6-9pm) includes Self-Portrait #2 by JM Reed.
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